Sorry, Barack Hussein, but there were no Muslims among the passengers on the Mayflower or the settlers at Jamestown. Muslims were conspicuously absent from the ranks of George Washington’s Army of the Revolution and played no role in the creation of the American republic - - save for the fact that the new country’s first declaration of war was against the forces of Islam in the form of the Barbary pirates.
Bears repeating. I've read the full history of US and Islam and it's almost always been at some level of conflict. In the past, the English, French, and other western countries simply paid off the pirates. It was until the US took them out the their reign of terror ended. It's very much as it is today. In all aspects of our relationships with Muslims be they terrorist in Iraq, pirates of Somalia or invaders in our cities. Western Europeans cave in, pay ransom and encourage the next attack and it's left to us to ultimately end the problem.